2018-19 Holiday Hours: while the business will be closed from 22nd December to 13th January (inclusive), Courtenay Studios will still be available to hire. Once your booking is confirmed, I will meet you here and help you set up, etc, as normal. Book by email: j.gilberd@xtra.co.nz

STUDIO HIRE RATES

• These rates include use of studio lighting equipment listed below.
• Rates do not include use of background paper that becomes marked or damaged and has to be disposed of. See note below.
• Minimum booking - $90.00 + GST (up to an hour)
• 2 hours - $140.00 + GST
• 3 hours - $190.00 + GST
• Half day - $240.00 + GST (4-5 hrs)
• Full day - $360.00 + GST (6 to 10 hrs)
• Longer periods of use - POA
• Bare room rates available, POA
• Use for other purposes (events, performance, seminars, meetings) by negotiation
• Available 24/7 but an agreed-upon minimum charge will operate for Sunday and late night access
• Some bookings may require a non-refundable deposit to confirm
• Conditions of hireage and usage apply. Please ensure you read and understand them.
  
• We reserve the right to refuse to hire, at our own discretion
  
• Payment on invoice is usually fine, as long as it is reasonably prompt. Payment by internet transfer, Eftpos, cash accepted.
  

Equipment available, all included in hire fee:

• Bowens flash units, various Monolights and Quad packs
• Softboxes, 1.2m x 0.8m, 1.2m x 1.0m, 150cm Octabox
• Range of reflector bowls up to 18", beauty dishes, snoots
• Large beauty dish with 500W equivalent daylight continuous. Fantastic for selective focus portraiture
• Various standard umbrellas; white, silver, gold, translucent, opaque
  
• Range of Colorama and Savage background paper rolls, 2.7m wide
  
• Manfrotto auto poles
• Lighting stands, 2x lightweight booms
• Camera tripods, various
• Sekonic flash meters
• Radio trigger units, slave cells, sync. cords
• High speed fibre wifi

Please note: the paper background rolls are expensive, so if you require a clean area of background paper for models to walk around on, it will be charged for at replacement cost per metre of used paper. This could mean an additional cost of more than $25 +GST per metre, depending on paper usage, extent of foot marks and damage. (There is no charge for use of the backgrounds if they are not damaged during shooting.)

Sorry, we do not hire cameras. Also, the main studio equipment is not generally available for hire for use outside the studio. Wellington Photographic Supplies have a range cameras, lenses and other equipment for hire.

Backgrounds
There are some 2.7m wide Colorama and Savage paper backgrounds available. We always keep white, grey and black ones up and ready. If you want clean background paper rolled out on the floor, the amount that gets trashed will need to be covered by your hire payment.

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Courtenay Studios, 6 wall-mounted 2.7m background paper rolls allow shooting the length or width of the studio.

Some of the lights parked up for the day. This equipment and more is included in the standard hire charge

Courtenay Studios interior